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Gartner, Alan – Exceptional Parent, 1988
This tongue-in-cheek article gives examples of ways in which educators give lip service to such principles as recognizing the rights of parents and valuing parent contributions but actually still try to avoid significant parent impact on their own work with students. (DB)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Parent Participation, Parent Rights, Parent School Relationship
Exceptional Parent, 1979
The author discusses considerations for successful parent school conferences. Sections address such components as goal setting, preparation, and steps to take in making parents feel comfortable. A one-year plan for four conferences is offered. (SBH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Handicapped Children, Parent Teacher Conferences
Hoppe, Paul – Exceptional Parent, 1979
The author presents several suggestions for the organization of self-help groups for parents of developmentally disabled children. Guidelines stress that parents are the most important advocates their children will ever have and that parents must often meet to share information among themselves. (SBH)
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Parent Associations
Knoll, James; Bedford, Sara – Exceptional Parent, 1989
Results of a survey of 2,800 parents of children with disabilities found that families are essentially pleased with their respite services, but are dissatisfied with the services' lack of flexibility, arbitrary limits on use, inability to respond to crises, lack of parental voice in forming or reforming services, etc. (JDD)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Family Programs, Parent Attitudes, Respite Care
Spadafore, Gerald – Exceptional Parent, 1979
The author offers guidelines to professionals for helping parents provide tutorial instruction to learning disabled children. Among suggestions outlined are a positive learning situation, short teaching sessions, feedback for work well done, and personalized learning activities. (SBH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Home Instruction, Learning Disabilities
Trieschmann, Mary – Exceptional Parent, 1987
COMPUPLAY, a program of the National Lekotek Center (Illinois) for handicapped children (ages 2-14) emphasizes the value of parent/child play activities using computers and provides computer support and resources to parents and professionals. (DB)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Disabilities, Elementary Education, Parent Child Relationship
Siperstein, Gary N.; Bak, John J. – Exceptional Parent, 1988
Parents must work actively with teachers to encourage the social integration of disabled children in mainstream classrooms. The ability to initiate and maintain positive peer relationships is necessary for healthy cognitive and social growth in all children, and it helps the disabled helps to overcome destructive cycles of rejection and isolation.…
Descriptors: Alienation, Cognitive Development, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Exceptional Parent, 1989
A ninth-grade student with cerebral palsy began to exhibit behavior problems in the classroom, and his parents disagreed in their problem-solving approach. Family counseling helped the boy improve his behavior, and helped the parents to realize that their adolescent son was struggling with the issue of independence. (JDD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Cerebral Palsy, Family Counseling
Shields, Mark – Exceptional Parent, 1986
Parents need information about the range of community resources and services available to them as soon as they learn their child has a disability. Schools must take a more active role in directing parents to community resources. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Community Services, Developmental Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Helping Relationship
Robison, Anne Q. – Exceptional Parent, 1987
In a letter to her six-year-old's kindergarten teacher, a parent discusses the child's (who has cerebral palsy) use of communication devices for expressive language and ways in which the teacher can help the child adjust and learn in such areas as "wait time," spontaneous conversation, and peer relationships. (CB)
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Expressive Language, Kindergarten
Exceptional Parent, 1987
Serving as a reference for parents and professionals who live and work with disabled children, this resource section lists state directors of special education, national disability-related organizations (United States and Canada), parent coalition groups, government agencies; professional organizations, a calendar of annual meetings, and a…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Human Resources, Information Sources, National Organizations
Exceptional Parent, 1987
A case study explores the attitudes, opinions, and concerns of the parents of a cerebral palsied adolescent (as well as the views of the affected public and private school administrators) concerning the decision to allow their son to move from a private to a public high school environment. (JW)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administrator Attitudes, Adolescents, Case Studies
Klein, Stanley D., Ed. – Exceptional Parent, 1993
This document consists of the nine issues of the journal "Exceptional Parent" published during 1993. This journal contains articles particularly aimed at parents of children with disabilities. Major articles published during this period are the following: "Annual Guide to Products and Services"; "Coping with…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Child Rearing, Disabilities, Family Programs